National audienceBiodiversity is a special urban component. By nature, it is composite, bringing together within the city indigenous, exotic, wild and other introduced species in public and private spaces. The complex task of characterising this biodiversity stems from a shift away from the scientific naturalist approach based on the knowledge of the diversity of living organisms towards multiform notions integrating systems and representations. It therefore implies the recognition, through the interaction of the players concerned, of intrinsic values (of existence, legacies, etc.) but also of such values as uses (regulation, production, services, etc.). However, at a time when the «biodiversity» dimension is at the heart of concerns relati...